Quotes of: Greatest-happiness Keyword

Julia Kline, you’ve spent your whole life running and all you’ve done is run farther away from the love that’s been waiting for you all along. The first time you smiled at me with your two missing teeth you had my undivided attention. When you ...

Sophie Monroe

I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that even sadness and loss mattered, because it was...

Susan Orlean

I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how...

Oceans of Fire

Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Diana Christensen: I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay he'd ev...

Network

Snow White: [to the Seven Dwarfs] Please don't send me away. If you do, she'll kill me. Dwarfs: Kill you? Happy: Who will? Sneezy: Yes, who? Snow White: My stepmother, the queen. Dwarfs: The Queen! Bashful: She's wicked! Happy: She's bad! Sneezy: She...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-r...

(500) Days of Summer

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

The Complete Essays

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The Conquest of Happiness

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

The Communist Manifesto

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

The Consolation of Philosophy

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

The Complete Poetry

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

Crescendo

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

The Caves of Steel

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979